In your negotiations, have you ever faced a truly difficult negotiator—someone whose behavior seems designed to provoke, thwart, and annoy you beyond all measure?
For some Western leaders these days, the negotiator who best fits that description might be Russian president Vladimir Putin. Since the beginning of the crisis in Ukraine, the Russian leader has seemed … Read More 
Discover how to collaborate, negotiate, and bargain with even the most combative opponents with, Dealing with Difficult People, a FREE special report from the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.
negotiating with difficult people
The following items are tagged negotiating with difficult people:
The Art of Saying No: Save the Deal, Save the Relationship, and Still Say No
No is perhaps the most important and certainly the most powerful word in the language. For many people, it is
also the hardest to say. Yet every day we and ourselves in situations where we need to say no—to people at work, at home, and in our communities—because it is the word we must use to … Read More
The New Conflict Management: Effective Conflict Resolution Strategies to Avoid Litigation
This report reveals how wise negotiators extract unexpected value using an indirect approach to conflict management. An aggressive management style can set you up for repeated failure. Direct conflict management approaches can be overly combative and counter-productive. Experienced negotiators know that compromise seldom succeeds. Win/lose is really lose/lose. The best negotiation strategy results in … Read More
PON Film Series presents “The Interrupters”
The PON Film Series presents
“The Interrupters”
followed by a post-screening discussion with
William Ury, co-author of Getting to YES &
Gary Slutkin, Executive Director of Chicago’s Ceasefire
Date: Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Time: 6:30 PM
Location: Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School Campus
The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters who try to protect their Chicago … Read More
Unlocking Value in Complex Business Deals
Through interactive lectures, freeze/unfreeze experience-based learning exercises, and personalized feedback, you will enhance your ability to prepare for complicated bargaining situations. You’ll also learn how to boost leverage by creating the right kind of competition (or, in some cases, merely the perception of competition) and examine the four critical considerations of complicated negotiation situations: the … Read More
Dealing with Difficult People
At the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School (PON), we are dedicated to helping professionals deal with hard bargainers and resolve even the most challenging disputes. To help you understand the principles of negotiation and conflict resolution, we put together a special report: Dealing With Difficult People.
Discover how to collaborate, negotiate, and bargain … Read More
Spring 2021 HARVARD NEGOTIATION MASTER CLASS
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- Business Negotiations
- Business Negotiation Skills to Curb Your Overconfidence
- Negotiation Skills: Four Steps for Changing Negotiation Practices in Your Organization
- M&A Negotiation Tactics: In Discovery-WarnerMedia Deal, AT&T Tries, Tries Again
- Business Negotiations: How to Improve Your Reputation at the Bargaining Table
- Solutions for Avoiding Intercultural Barriers at the Negotiation Table
- Conflict Resolution
- Crisis Negotiations
- What is Crisis Management in Negotiation?
- Famous Negotiations Cases – NBA and the Power of Deadlines at the Bargaining Table
- Learning from crisis negotiations
- Negotiation in the News: Last Negotiating Moves From A Never-Boring President
- Police Negotiation Techniques from the NYPD Crisis Negotiations Team
- Dealing with Difficult People
- Dealmaking
- Try a Contingent Contract if You Can’t Agree on What Will Happen
- The Winner’s Curse: Avoid This Common Trap in Auctions
- Should Women “Lean In” to Create More Value in Negotiations?
- Negotiated Agreements: Why You Should Limit Your Options
- When Good Negotiations Go Sour: When Mark Wahlberg Asked for More
- Dispute Resolution
- Difficult Situations at Work – Negotiation Skills for Dealing with Difficult People
- Dispute Resolution on Facebook: Using a Negotiation Approach to Resolve a Conflict
- Alternative Dispute Resolution In-House: Mediation, Arbitration, or Med-Arb?
- Dispute Resolution, NHL style
- Settling Out of Court: Negotiating in the Shadow of the Law
- International Negotiation
- Dispute Resolution for India and Bangladesh
- India’s Direct Approach to Conflict Resolution
- Cross Cultural Negotiations in International Business: Four Negotiation Tips for Bargaining in China
- Famous Negotiators: Tony Blair’s 10 Principles to Guide Diplomats in International Conflict Resolution
- International Negotiations and Agenda Setting: Controlling the Flow of the Negotiation Process
- Leadership Skills
- Mediation
- Mediation vs Arbitration – The Alternative Dispute Resolution Process
- Interest-Based Negotiation: In Mediation, Focus on Your Goals
- Using E-Mediation and Online Mediation Techniques for Conflict Resolution
- Negotiations and Logrolling: Discover Opportunities to Generate Mutual Gains
- Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR): Negotiating for the Right Mediator
- Negotiation Skills
- The Anchoring Heuristic: Anchoring for Maximum Effect
- Using Body Language in Negotiation
- The Right Negotiation Environment: Your Place or Mine?
- In Email Negotiations, When They’re Happy, Do You Know it?
- Overconfidence About Future Failure or Success: Limiting Strategic Miscalculation in Business Negotiations
- Negotiation Training
- Salary Negotiations
- Teaching Negotiation
- Win-Win Negotiations